Too many recent Japanese loanwords in English?

Language Log 2013-07-17

Summary:

In "Chinese loans in English" and in "Too many English loanwords in Japanese?" we examined the propositions that Chinese borrowings into English in recent times have been very few, while English borrowings into Chinese and Japanese have been relatively numerous.  Some commenters even made the assertion that the age of borrowing is past. In this [...]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5336

Updated:

07/17/2013, 20:12

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Tags:

borrowing

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

07/17/2013, 21:50

Date published:

07/17/2013, 18:55